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A City of the Dawn

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE GHOST-POOLS OF KOMBENI The sea was smooth as glass and pearl-grey in the morning light as I pulled my bicycle out at dawn, and the blue smoke hung over the huts of the village in the damp air. African mornings are never to be forgotten. Here a reasonable road runs straight out under the cocoa palms, and the huts cluster, each in its own setting of wide banana leaves and graceful cassava, all the way along it. There are, of course, no hedges, nor indeed fences of any description; flowering bushes and trees abound, and crotons of every hue show among the greens. As early as this people are astir. Women, in a single dark cloth wrapped tightly about them, are lighting fires, or returning with the water, or loosing the goats whose sound fills the air. You see a few babies a-sprawl on mats; the young rascals of boys are still asleep. But most of the men will set out for town, five miles away, in half an hour or so. The road through the village strikes the main way to the south end of the island at an askari box, with the drooping scarlet flag of the Sultan's Government on a pole by the door and the native policeman himself, in smart khaki and a red tarbusch, rather sleepy on a bench beside it. He saluted cheerily and gave me a Jambo in return for mine; and then I saw my friend. We two had planned the excursion together, and I had put my life in his hands by leaving the arrangements to him. He is a young Goan, born in the Seychelles, a little dark, but vivacious and clever enough to hope enthusiastically for a medical course at Aberdeen when his brother returns from seven years' exile among its granite, mists, and snows. It is an amazing journey for him to take, and it shows the spirit of old Portugal in these, her rather decadent sons. He has no English friends th...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150643477
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 46
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150643471
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 100 gr

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